- Comedy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never Quotes
Quotes on what never happens.
This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable. Related reading includes Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always say that characters must drive plots, never the reverse. Writing about large-scale events creates the risk that the scope of the events themselves can overwhelm the characters. I emphatically do not want that. That was the only trepidation I felt when I started 'The Twilight War.'
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been in a gang. None of my friends have been in a gang. I've never rolled around with big entourages.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been on the cover of a game. When people go into the store and see me on the cover of a game, maybe that will entice them to buy it.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
My career has been a level of serendipity all along. I've never planned anything out more than a few years. All the places we lived - the 12, 13 countries - and the companies I worked for were a combination of circumstances.
- Handwriting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never did calligraphy... But handwriting is an entirely different kind of thing. It's part of the syndrome of modernism... It's part of that asceticism.
- Comedy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm like the Davy Crockett of comedy... after Davy Crockett opened up the West and helped everybody... they didn't need him anymore. I freed a lot of comics... if I never would have done comedy, it would've been a different art form... I'm sure of it.
- Inside
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- Nov 07, 2020
My comedy is a nuclear bomb inside my mind. It's a weapon that's never been tested. It just blows up and flattens everybody.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Andy was not a hippie or rebel but more like a mischievous child. He was never out to destroy everything. He became a New Yorker, and New Yorkers know, like the media, what's going on around them is a fashion thing that will change to something else.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020